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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I still don't understand how they are doing it.

At no point in history could you go to the woman dealership and buy a woman. You could maybe pay for a little time with a woman, or buy a slave at a slave auction. You could negotiate with a woman's father some exchange for his daughter. But that exchange usually had to have something of value, and it also meant you lived beyond the age of 30.

Like I get that younger people are dumb, and being a man, I can attest that men are particularly dumb, but how fucking whacked are these men thinking they will somehow benefit from this?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The strict dress code for women came about because debt collectors would show up to farms in the Fertile Crescent to demand payment on a loan, and decide to take their daughters as payment. (Drunkenly-remembered source: Graeber, "Debt: The First 5,000 Years.")

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